Donald Trump
Parody or real?
I can't tell.
Canadian hacktivists Telecomix Canada have defaced Donald Trump's website. The message, entitled "Your Moment of Zen, Mr Stewart" is a shoutout to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show for his steady criticism of Donald Trump. The announcement was made by Telecomix Canada on pastebin and says that the reveal of the server penetration …
"Parody or real?"
"Both! The first HeisenCandidate ever."
How dare you repress the first openly arsehole presidential candidate in American history! Do you not know how brave this righteous man is in displaying his arsehole beliefs for the world to see? Can you not understand the hardship he has had to go through in life just because he happened to be born an arsehole?
I'm shocked and dismayed that I have to read these sort of arsophobic comments even in the hallowed pages of El Reg...
<Coughs>
This was kinda dumb on the part of the hackers.
You don't tug on Superman's cape,
You don't spit into the wind...
Trump will put his many, many lawyers on mad-money until these hackers are found and caught, then he will press state, local, and Federal charges. Then he will bankrupt their businesses, and the businesses of their friends.
This is what happens when you mess with an arsehole.
Trump will put his many, many lawyers on mad-money until these hackers are found and caught, then he will press state, local, and Federal charges.
He can throw all the money he wants at lawyers, but if they did the hack from a laptop in McDonalds or somewhere else with free public wifi (which, honestly, they'd be morons not to have done) the odds of actually catching them are pretty much nil.
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>>You don't tug on Superman's cape
Wrong superhero comic franchise.
I accept Superman did battle the odd alien, but that was always about outer space and other irrelevances.
Captain Comb-over is a superhetero for the 21st century. He realizes where the real alien menace is (Mexico).
"Parody or real?
I can't tell."
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Does it matter?
If we look at the overall polls, while he leads the GOP with 20%, that means 80% of those polled in the Republican Party don't want him. Then there's the Independents and Democrats.
But here's the thing.
1) Say what you will, he's more honest than most of the other candidates. Walker and Kaisich seem to be fairly straight up individuals.
2) Look at Trump's underlying message. The Obama administration has screwed up this country so much.. and the world... things have to change.
It resonates with people fed up with those currently in Congress and the WH today.
Yes, he's an A hole. But unlike others, he admits to being one. He knows how to play to the audience and he's taking a stand and stating his opinion.
Now I admire Trump's openness and honesty. I admire the fact that he's not beholden to corporate donors or laundered money from special interests.
Will I vote for him if hey gets the GOP nod?
Definitely not. Well maybe if its Trump vs HRC.
ABC! Anybody but Clinton.
"Say what you will, he's more honest than most of the other candidates.
Or simply a brash personality chasing populist opinion?
Just because others are thinking it and he's prepared to say it; it doesn't make it any more right or even palatable. It does however fill column inches, much like Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins.
"Now he's mayor of London, and reportedly going to have a crack at PM one of these days."
Johnson's ambitions went pear shaped starting with the exit polls for the General Election. The Conservative Buller Right was only going to run the country if Cameron got wiped. He didn't...even the most Euro-sceptic Conservatives are rather quiet these days.
And Cameron would love it if Corbyn won, not because Labour would be unelectable but because it would open some centre ground for him to colonise. More Conservative votes from a centrist move = stronger position for Cameron, weaker for Johnson.
The situation in the UK doesn't resemble that in the US at all.
"People said the same things about Boris Johnson. Now he's mayor of London, and reportedly going to have a crack at PM one of these days."
But Boris is likeable - and we all really know the bumbling buffoon persona is an act.
You look at Trump and say "wow, he's an arsehole", and it's not just someone pretending to be an arsehole. If you watched the U.S. version of "Apprentice" or "Celebrity Apprentice", you got a feel for how he has no empathy, makes arbitrary decisions [quite often in direct conflict to what he's previously said], and is dictator material.
Hmm, hours later and its still there
Interesting. I wouldn't put it past Trump to have the website deliberately changed and then claim it's hacked, simply to get attention. He's done something similar before.
And to those people that sling insults at Trump calling him an "arsehole" - the man is worth billions of $$$, owns mansions everywhere, has his own plane, and bangs beautiful women all over the place. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of the life of luxury and privilege he lives. And oh, he bangs beautiful women everywhere. PlayboyTM playmates, supermodels, that hot chick on the corner.
So to you people calling him an "arsehole" - do you really think Trump gives a damn what you think of him? Do you? I'd live his life in a hot second. Wouldn't you?
I'd live his life in a hot second. Wouldn't you?
No. My people are worth more than my life or my comfort. I'd love to live a life of luxury, but not if the cost what my ability to care for others. And if I did have his wealth, I'd spent it - and my time - giving as much back in as long term and objectively beneficial a means as I could find.
That you would sell your humanity for fake breasts and a yacht doesn't reflect well on you.
Well sure, I'd like to have inherited billions. Since I can't really imagine the stresses that entails, it sounds great. I'm happy with my life where my net worth is a rounding error in Mr Trump's account.
Would I want that in exchange for my personality becoming like Trump's? Hell no. Same reason I don't do profitable but morally/ethically wrong activities, and so don't get as much money as some.
He's a rich arsehole who inherited all his wealth. Thus he gets the benefit of someone having done the hard work.
He's shit at business, if he had taken his inheritance, put in US Treasuries or Gilts, he would a) have more profit than he does now and b) not have lost investors money.
Now I've known plenty of shits just like him, just not quite believing their own crap quite so much as to want to be TV stars and running for public office. I've also known people who've inherited far more than Trump (and in lines of succession) who are genuinely lovely people.
As for "bangs beautiful women everywhere" I'll just have me a wee giggle at that. Apart from the hair/face/body I can see why there's a teenage excitement to wanting to be Trump.
I mean, his name alone is worth 3 billion :D
He's a rich arsehole who inherited all his wealth. Thus he gets the benefit of someone having done the hard work.
Um....no. He's lost all the wealth he inherited several times over. He inherited tens of millions, maybe as much as $200 million (that's the wildest estimates). He's worth billions. If you think he could have done that through treasuries then you fail at math.
Which is not to say he could have done it without that inheritance. Once you've got a certain amount of money it's pretty easy to turn it into more money. But few can do it as efficiently as he has.
Trump was given control of his father's company in 1971. If back then you bought 10 year treasuries, reinvested the interest, rolled over, etc. you'd have a 20x gain. Not saying that's the best investment you could have made in that time, but he's unlikely to have done much better than 20x unless you believe his fanciful claims of a net worth of $10 billion.
Once you've got a certain amount of money it's pretty easy to turn it into more money. But few can do it as efficiently as he has.
It's not hard. Hire some maths nerds. Give them funds to play with. Hire some jocks. Have them break the nerds if they don't produce.
Suddenly, you're richer.
"So to you people calling him an "arsehole" - do you really think Trump gives a damn what you think of him? Do you? I'd live his life in a hot second. Wouldn't you?"
Sounds like you're jealous. I'm not. Trump is an arsehole.
One thing is he has money but no taste, and he *thinks* he's the paragon of sophistication.
You'd think that after going to the trouble of breaking into Trump's website they'd post something at least half-intelligible. What is it about Anonymous cyber-hackery that makes people feel the need to ham it up like a Victorian pantomime villain?
Just about the only thing I gathered after reading it was, as El Reg says in the standfirst, that they think The Donald is an asshole.
In reaching out to The Register to publicise the breach
Seriously, what ever was wrong with any of the rich variety of single English words that describe a specific or general means of "contacting" somebody? "Reaching out" just sounds like someone's grabbing at a lifebelt while having an over-emotional sob about it.